Design & Test Integration

Turn great ideas into validated products—faster

In RF comms development, aggressive specs and evolving technologies shouldn’t slow you down. Keep moving forward with Keysight’s RF workflow environment: It’s the comprehensive way to simulate, measure and analyze communications components and systems. Through application-specific solutions, we can help you achieve greater levels of confidence in your designs, products and schedules. The foundation is proven software and hardware products that let you leverage our decades of experience in high-frequency systems. Accelerate with Keysight and turn great ideas into validated products—faster.

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Keysight Technologies, Inc. today announced a new PXI Reference Solution for RF power amplifier (PA) characterization and test. The Reference Solution, which performs S-parameter, harmonic distortion, power and demodulation measurements, enables rapid, full characterization of next-generation power amplifier modules, such as a power amplifier-duplexer (PAD).

EEsof EDA W1462 SystemVue FPGA Architect now supports on-board FPGA design and simulation with the Agilent M9703A AXIe wideband digital receiver/digitizer. The new modeling and simulation capability reduces development time for research and design validation teams working on early system prototyping and development of advanced multichannel applications.

Bit Error Rate (BER) remains the ultimate quality metric for all communication systems. Emerging 4G systems like LTE specify throughput rate as a metric for system performance. These 4G systems add intelligence by using adaptive modulation based on channel quality, but under the hood, BER is measured while the modulation is adjusted.

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has become attractive for many current and emerging commercial applications because it provides a combination of data throughput, scalability, and robustness.

To lower test costs SystemVue can be used with Keysight test equipment to model realistic environment and jamming scenarios, which often involve costly outdoor ranges, chambers, and real-time hardware simulators. Watch the YouTube video to see how.

This tutorial video shows how X-parameter* models can be used in SystemVue system-level designs. This unites measured RF components with Baseband DSP and algorithm design in a single top-down design flow.

Demonstration of the design and verification of an FPGA-based mobile WiMAX IQ Modulator for a software-defined radio (SDR). The flow shows a design example in the W1462 SystemVue FPGA Architect. In Part 1 of 4, the Fixed Point design is introduced.